Marie Curie intra-european fellowships for career development (IEF) – FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IEF. Deadline: 2013-08-14. This action is to support the career development, or restart, of experienced researchers at different stages of their careers, and seeks to enhance their individual competence diversification in terms of skill acquisition at multi- or interdisciplinary level and/or by undertaking intersectoral experiences.The aim is to support researchers in attaining and/or strengthening a leading independent position, e.g. principal investigator, professor or other senior position in education or enterprise.

Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowships (IIF) – FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IIF. Deadline: 2013-08-14. This action aims to reinforce the research excellence of the Member States and the associated countries through knowledge sharing with incoming top-class researchers active in an other third country to work on research projects in Europe, with the view to developing mutually-beneficial research co-operation between Europe and an other third country. It aims to encourage these researchers to plan their period of international mobility within the framework of a coherent professional project and thus enhances the possibility of future collaborative research links with European researchers and organisations active in research in their future research career.

Marie Curie international Outgoing Fellowships for career development (IOF) – FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IOF. Deadline: 2013-08-14. This action aims to reinforce the international dimension of the career of European researchers by giving them the opportunity to be trained and acquire new knowledge in a high-level organisation active in research, established in an other third country (outgoing phase). Subsequently, these researchers will return with the acquired knowledge and experience to an organisation in a Member State or associated country.

Marie Curie Career Integration Grants (CIG) – FP7-PEOPLE-2013-CIG. Deadline: 2013-09-18. This action aims to reinforce the European Research Area (ERA) by encouraging researchers to establish themselves in a Member State or in an associated country, thereby attracting and retaining the best talents in Europe. The action is designed to support researchers in the first steps of their European research career and to attain lasting professional integration in the ERA. By providing researchers with a substantial research budget, the action is intended to improve considerably their prospects for long term integration, thus contributing to the success of their research career.

ERC Synergy Grants will enable small groups of Principal Investigators and their teams bringing together complementary skills, knowledge, and resources, to jointly address research problems at the frontier of knowledge going beyond what the individual Principal Investigators could achieve alone. Deadline: 10 January 2012 at 17:00:00 (Brussels local time). The information package can be downloaded here. More information can be found here.

ERC Advanced Grants allow exceptional established research leaders of any nationality and any age to pursue ground-breaking, high-risk projects that open new directions in their respective research fields or other domains. Deadline: 22 November 2012 at 17:00:00 (Brussels local time). The information package can be downloaded here. More information can be found here.

Starting Grants are intended for researchers of any nationality with 2-7 years of experience since completion of PhD (or equivalent degree) and scientific track record showing great promise. Deadline: 17 October 2012 at 17:00:00 (Brussels local time). The information package can be downloaded here. More information can be found here.

Acceso a la convocatoria; Plazo de presentación de solicitudes para el área “Physical Sciences and Engineering”: hasta el 16 de febrero de 2012. ERC Advanced Grants allow exceptional established research leaders of any nationality and any age to pursue ground-breaking, high-risk projects that open new directions in their respective research fields or other domains.
The ERC Advanced Grant funding targets researchers who have already established themselves as independent research leaders in their own right.

Acceso a la convocatoria; Plazo de presentación de solicitudes: hasta el 25 de enero de 2012. For 2012 the ERC has introduced the ‘Synergy Grant’, which is intended to enable a small group of Principal Investigators and their teams to bring together complementary skills, knowledge, and resources in new ways, in order to jointly address research problems.